The facts are simple. If the border was sealed from illegal crossings, this man’s son would still be alive today.
NOTE: I’ve lost any amount of respect I had for Marco Rubio. He has effectively killed his chances of ever getting support from the conservative base in running for the GOP nomination.
“In 2008 on March the 2nd, the American dream came to a screeching halt for my son, Jamiel Shaw the 2nd, also known as Jamiel Shaw, Jr.,” Shaw testified. “Jamiel was just 17 years young and a football superstar destined for greatness when he was gunned down three doors from our home while his mother was serving in Iraq.”
Shaw, Jr., his father testified, “was a junior at Los Angeles High School and already being looked at by universities such as Rutgers and Stanford.”
“The last time I spoke to my son he was on his way home from the mall,” Shaw said. “I can still hear his voice, ‘Be right home dad, I’m right around the corner!’ He never made it home and our lives are permanently separated.”
Shaw said that when he next saw his son, he was “lying on the ground dead.”
“According to the coroner who testified at the trial, Jamiel was shot in the stomach first and while he was lying on the ground with his hands covering his head pleading for his life, he was shot again,” Shaw said. “The bullet went through his hand and straight into his head.”
